The Great Cheese Robbery
- January 16, 1920 (1920-01-16)[1]
The Great Cheese Robbery is a silent short animated film made by Bray Productions featuring Krazy Kat. It marks the first Krazy film produced by Bray after the International Film Service (IFS) ended its run in making films in the series.
Plot
One evening, Krazy Kat pulls a newspaper from a trash barrel and reads of unsolved cheese robberies in town. Moments later he spots a masked Ignatz Mouse heading down the street and follows him.
Outside a cheese store, Walter, an ostrich policeman, hears footsteps approaching and, frightened, sticks his head in the ground, allowing Ignatz to enter the store unseen, as does Krazy moments later. Inside, Ignatz devours an entire wheel of cheese and crams another into his bag. Upon hearing a banging on the door, Ignatz hides and Krazy enters, only to be mystified by the empty room. Having been attracted by the racket, Walter comes in, mistakes Krazy for the bandit, and arrests him.
The next morning Ignatz is highly amused over a newspaper report of the arrest and the $10,000 bail for the prisoner. Soon he has a severe attack of conscience with illusions of monstrous shapes pointing accusing fingers at him. He snatches a sack of money from a hiding place, rushes to the police station and pays the bail. Krazy is astonished when he sees it's been paid by Ignatz.
Alternate ending
In a short version of the film called Rescued by a Guilty Conscience which was distributed by a company called Keystone for their toy projectors, there is an alternate ending. In it, Krazy, upon being bailed, suddenly becomes more insane than usual as he starts seeing a ghostly marsupial in his wings as a result of being held in custody for many hours. As an act of generosity, Ignatz hurls the sack of cash at Krazy to snap the cat out of it.
Home media
The short film was also released in 2004 in a DVD video compilation called George Herriman's Kinomatic Krazy Kat Kartoon Klassics.[2]
References
External links
- The Great Cheese Robbery[dead link] at the Big Cartoon Database
- v
- t
- e
- Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse Discuss the Letter 'G'
- Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse: A Duet, He Made Me Love Him
- Krazy Kat Invalid
- The Great Cheese Robbery
- Love's Labor Lost
- The Best Mouse Loses
- The Awful Spook
- The Wireless Wire-Walkers
- Bokays and Brickbatz
- Searching For Santa!
- A Barnyard Frolic
- Dentist Love
- Feather Duster
- Stomach Trouble
- Rail Rode
- The Stork Exchange
- Sleepy Holler
- Ratskin
- Port Whines
- Farm Relief
- Slow Beau
- Alaskan Knights
- Jazz Rhythm
- The Bandmaster
- The Apache Kid
- Rodeo Dough
- Disarmament Conference
- Soda Poppa
- Svengarlic
- Weenie Roast
- Bars and Stripes
- Hash House Blues
- Taken for a Ride
- Piano Mover
- Hollywood Goes Krazy
- Birth of Jazz
- Ritzy Hotel
- Seeing Stars
- Prosperity Blues
- The Crystal Gazebo
- The Minstrel Show
- Snow Time
- Wedding Bells
- The Medicine Show
- The Broadway Malady
- Russian Dressing
- Antique Antics
- Out of the Ether
- Krazy Spooks
- The Bill Poster
- The Autograph Hunter
- Southern Exposure
- Bowery Daze
- The Trapeze Artist
- The Katnips of 1940
- Krazy's Waterloo
- The Peace Conference
- A Happy Family
- Kannibal Kapers
- Lil' Ainjil
- The Lyin' Hunter
- Krazy's Race of Time
- Railroad Rhythm
- The Lone Mountie
- The Little Lost Sheep
- The Mouse Exterminator